The Midshipmen focused intently on their defense Saturday — and then they matched up with Army.

Before the game Saturday, Navy seriously and intently was on guard for precious cargo. This cargo was not a Naval officer or even a high-profile politician, but one with a much hairier appearance.

The Midshipmen were intent upon protecting the team's mascot, Bill the Goat, because there is extensive history of the goat being kidnaped around the time of their game against Army every year.

In fact, the goat has been stolen multiple times and the plots for theft featured elaborate schemes where girlfriends have been used as distractions, boats have been docked for extractions and chloroform has been used for submission.

The possibility of a goat-napping is so severe Navy doesn't even disclose the location of Bill the Goat anymore. In addition, the school made a statement about protection of the animal officially.

“We regularly review our security posture commensurate with the anticipated threat, and that posture also applies to the goats,” an academy spokeswoman said, via the Washington Post. “The anticipated threat to the goats increases greatly as Army-Navy football nears, and thus the security of the goats does increase.”

As of halftime there were no reported goat-nappings surrounding the Army-Navy game, so the Midshipmen defense has doing a great job. They even held an effective Army offense to seven first-half points as well, so Navy clearly covered all of their bases.